A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
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... carried off by rollers into a can . Cartwright himself was not successful with this comb , but it formed a basis for better machines , at which there were many attempts . None was widely used until that patented in England by Platt and ...
... carried off by rollers into a can . Cartwright himself was not successful with this comb , but it formed a basis for better machines , at which there were many attempts . None was widely used until that patented in England by Platt and ...
Page 569
... carried either in wheeled caissons full of water , or dry in wheeled cradles , or ran on their own wheels ( figure 314 ) . Water was the usual , steam the occasional , motive - power . The greatest vertical height of any British plane carry ...
... carried either in wheeled caissons full of water , or dry in wheeled cradles , or ran on their own wheels ( figure 314 ) . Water was the usual , steam the occasional , motive - power . The greatest vertical height of any British plane carry ...
Contents
GLASS by L M ANGUSBUTTERWORTH Director The Newton Heath Glass | 12 |
TELEGRAPHY by G R M GARRATT Deputy Keeper Department of Electrical | 22 |
FISH PRESERVATION by C L CUTTING Officer in Charge Humber | 44 |
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agricultural beam became Boulton Boulton and Watt bridge Britain British built canal carbon carried cast iron chemical clay coal Coalbrookdale coke construction copper crops cylinder D. E. Woodall diameter E. J. HOLMYARD early eighteenth century electric engine England English Europe fallow farming figure France French furnace glass heat horizontal husbandry Ibid important improved inches industrial revolution introduced invention inventor J. F. Horrabin John John Smeaton later lathe London machine machinery manufacture mechanical metal method mill mineral mines Newcomen Newcomen engine nineteenth century obtained operation oxide Paris patent Photograph by courtesy pipe piston plate porcelain practical produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough Royal screw sewers shaft ships silk Smeaton Staffordshire steam steam-engine steel stones sulphuric acid surface telegraph tion vertical ware water-wheels watermills Watt whales wheel wooden wrought iron